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...married again -- this time for three months, to local DJ Greg "Thunder" Malban. The Chicago Tribune sniped that she was "a professional bride." Undeterred, Mondale broke into television journalism as an entertainment reporter with WCCO-TV, and started raising getting more than her share of ink in the gossip column of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune -- where she appeared a record 200 times. "There is no doubt," the Star-Trib later wrote, "that she closed plenty of bars, dated high-profile celebrities" -- ex-Eagle Don Henley among them -- "and muscled her way into the limelight...
...came just days before a local magazine was about to run a story headlined "Walter and Joan's Wild Child." The other reason she got fired, Mondale herself admits, was that she was no good. She moved back to Chicago in 1991, where she continued to appear in the gossip columns and got a job hosting another bad TV show, this one for the Lifetime network. It was another non-starter called the "Great American TV Poll." The poll questions ranged from "How old is too old for a miniskirt?" to "Would you tell your best friend if you knew...
...before the Clinton-Mondale association made headlines. On June 10, 1996, while Hillary was in Detroit, Mondale attended a Clinton fund-raiser at the Hollywood home of producer Lew Wasserman. Now clearly a name in her own right, she managed to upstage fellow celebs Barbra Streisand and Richard Baskin. Gossip columnists went wild over that alone -- "Streisand sulked because Clinton only had eyes for Eleanor," reported the Daily Mail. The Washington Post added that Mondale, Streisand and others joined Clinton in his private suite for a final drink, and "stayed up late with him nibbling fruit...
...Clinton's most dependable contributors, his mainline to Hollywood money. Like Eleanor, he was twice divorced; he was also extricating himself from a third marriage. In October, the New York Post spotted the pair in a clinch at Le Cirque 2000. Once again, Eleanor was the darling of the gossip pages...
...madness, the media keeps running front page stories about the scandal's ins and outs. As the media adapts to the changing ways we get our news, though, the all-important editorial independence from business concerns gets harder and more costly to sustain. So if providing us with the gossip and entertainment we like is increasingly the goal of our news providers, perhaps the standard gripes against the media elite are wrong. Maybe the media needs to be more insulated from mainstream pressures...